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...week, theatrical, horse-faced Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars finally got to the witness stand herself in Washington's Federal District Court. Before a jury of five women and seven men, she slipped into the role of a foolish gentlewoman as though it were a loose kimono, got a handkerchief within easy dabbing distance of her eyes, and set out to explain that she had been true to the red, white & blue all the time...
Setting his feet squarely on the edge of his desk, adjusting his green eyeshade and squaring his handkerchief, the Vagabond wet his fingers and started leafing through Holiday magazine. He had done this so often that now the pages leaped up as his thumb drew near, leaped up and fell back until the Chosen Spot appeared. Vag wasted little time with the pictures; the article itself moved him more, for hidden there was a great truth and the more he pondered it, the truer it seemed...
...windmill style, were struck by the contrast; like a good rumba dancer, Gehrmann hardly moved from the waist up. He was all legs, eating up the boards with a long (8½ ft.), smooth and relaxed stride. Crumpled in his right hand, Gehrmann clutched something blue-a handkerchief, for luck...
...sliding down the bannisters." In the Senate chamber, he spotted his family sitting in the gallery, just to the right of the clock. When it came time for Senator Arthur Vandenberg to swear in Humphrey, 14th in line, Humphrey's father leaned forward, dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief. "He's going to be a great Senator," the father said afterward. "Maybe he's going to be something else...
...hokum this. In early 1945, Major Wyatt ("Rat-top") Exum, then deputy commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...